Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

UK's NHS spent $150M outsourcing imaging scans to manage radiologist shortage

Last year, the NHS spent $150 million outsourcing patient scans to cope with the radiologist shortage, according to a 2017 clinical radiology U.K. workforce census report released Wednesday, Sept. 5, by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).

Comcast exec named COO of Amazon healthcare joint venture

The healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has named Jack Stoddard as its new COO, according to CNBC.

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Quality over quantity: 8 ways radiology practices can provide value-based care

Radiology’s shift from volume to value began a number of years ago. However, according to a new analysis published in Radiology, it can be challenging for imaging leaders to know how to successfully make that transition within their own practices.

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8 keys for radiology to embrace the value-based era

It’s a great time to be a radiologist. Imaging technology is advancing, jobs are plentiful and wages are healthy, wrote a pair of radiologists in a Sept. 4 Radiology commentary. At the same time, costs are rapidly increasing.

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15 men who worked near Ground Zero after 9/11 diagnosed with breast cancer

According to a new report in the New York Post, at least 15 men who were in or around New York’s Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Obamacare challenge heads into oral arguments

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is facing one of its biggest challenges to date as arguments began Wednesday, Sept. 5, in a live-or-die lawsuit that could potentially nullify the healthcare law.

Blood-testing company Theranos—once worth $9B—to dissolve

Theranos, the company that claimed it could test for a variety of medical conditions with a single drop of blood, is officially dissolving.

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Eye on Canada: 3 Views on PACS Priorities

Sponsored by Sectra

With PACS as with any healthcare-specific technology, some universal expectations are common to all end-users and their IT support teams. Yet there are also as many unique sets of preferences as there are PACS stakeholders.